After the company went bankrupt, a tropical theme park was opened there. The hangar was also equipped with a 180 m (590 ft) cutting table to manufacture the airship's envelope. The hangar (360 m or 1,180 ft long, 220 m or 720 ft wide and 106 m or 348 ft high), a technological marvel in itself, is a freestanding steel-dome 'barrel-bowl' construction large enough to fit the Eiffel Tower on its side, and was featured on the Modern Marvels episode 'Hangers'.

The hangar for production and operation of the CL160 and engineering team facilities were built on the former Soviet Air Force base at Brand-Briesen Airfield, Brandenburg, acquired to enable development and operations. A public stock offering took place in May 2000, and the resulting shareholder structure was characterized by a high proportion of small investors, attracted by substantial press coverage of the new breakthrough technologies being promised.

As 1 cubic meter of helium has a buoyancy of roughly 1 kg, the size of a craft required to lift heavy loads is considerable.Ĭargolifter AG was created on 1 September 1996 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Ĭargolifter AG was founded by a group of influential engineers and scientists in 1996, and its main goal was to promote airships and develop technologies for their use as a lifting mechanism for transporting heavy and bulky goods to hard-to-reach places. CargoLifter and Russia’s Aerosmena are among those developing huge airships that can lift up to 600 tons of freight while hovering above the ground or sea. KG company seeks to continue selling the lighter-than-air technology. Today, shareholder-founded CL CargoLifter GmbH & Co. The airship was never built and the company went bankrupt in July 2002. This service was based on the development of a heavy lift airship, the CL160, a 550,000 m 3 (19,000,000 cu ft) vessel designed to carry a 160 t (160,000 kg 350,000 lb) payload. Note the three people at the lower left for scaleĬargolifter AG was a German company founded in 1996 to offer logistical services through point-to point transport of heavy and outsized loads.

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